Don't Care About Spellings... Can You Read This??

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.
Cna yuo raed tihs?
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a
wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be
in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed
it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I
awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

I don't think anyone took it wrongly. The item you posted has been around for years. It's interesting, and it points out how we can interpret information through the noise. There's another similar bit that leaves out all the vowels, yet is understandable.

We interpret what we see in terms of what we already know. If you had only a passing knowledge of another language, you probably could not understand jumbled text it that.

A third variation on this theme, that I've not seen in a long time, presents just the outlines of words in text. Surprisingly, you can read that pretty well. We tend to recognize common words as much by their overall shape as by the individual letters. That's part of why text in all upper case is harder to read.

> Hey, let me clarify. I don't mean that spellings aren't important. I'm just stating a point.
You should start noticing smiley's in posts. They help in knowing the sentiment with which the post was made.

> Wow, sos that was horrible.
It was a bait to attract all "leet"ers. Congratulations on being the first one in this thread...

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.
Cna yuo raed tihs?
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a
wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be
in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed
it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I
awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Sure you can read it, but it slows you down and possible gives you a headache. You might get arrested by secret government police, who undoubtedly think you are using encrypted spy code.

Well, leet/l33t/l337/... came from the word 'elite'. Replacing alphabets by 'look-alike' numbers and other characters was the key. For example, using 4 as A, 3 as E, 7 as T, 5 as S and so on. Hackers, crackers, etc used to use this term. But not anymore. That's because, reading something written by/in leet is not only irritating, but also, a pain in the err.. 455 (pun intended!)

Oh :( I am sorry. My 'thought' of irritation is different from yours. It all depends on how you feel when you are irritated. Now I know how you feel when you are irritated.(scratch, burn, sting and whatever!) hmmm!